Big data startup Cazena was announced last week by a group of veterans from the IBM-acquired Netezza, who pioneered big data appliances. What was also announced was a Series A funding of $8 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and North Bridge Venture Partners. Led by founder and CEO Prat Moghe,

Compass, a business monitoring and intelligence service provider, has landed new funding, upwards of $2 million in a second round of funding bringing the total investment to $3 million so far. The funding will see to team building efforts by helping hire analysts and engineers. The support came from their

Alpine Data Labs have unvieled Alpine Chorus 5.0, an enterprise-class advanced analytics platform which aims to unify data access, management and monitoring on one platform. One of the major advancements between Chorus 4.0 and Chorus 5.0 is that Alpine now offers data managements across all the major Hadoop distributions. Alpine’s

As every industry becomes more data-driven, it becomes increasingly crucial that everyone in an organisation- from the Heads of IT to the least tech-savvy business person- has access to the key information. But of course, the requirements of these personel differ wildly, and there is yet to emerge a single

Exasol was founded 14 years ago with a mission in mind: to build an ultra-fast, highly scalable database for analytics. Having been in the business of crafting an in-memory database for nearly a decade and a half, Exasol is uniquely placed to offer insights into the data science ecosystem, and will

MapD, a Big Data analytics and visualization platform, has secured $1.5 million from Nvidia, Google Ventures, and other participatory investors, with the aim to fund its product development and its first commercial release, later this year, reports Venture Beat. “There aren’t really any other tools on the market that allow

Logi Analytics, the analytics everywhere company, today announced the latest version of its business intelligence platform, Logi Info, providing customers the ability to embed self-service capabilities directly into their applications, and letting business users author their own data visualizations, dashboards, and reports. The release introduces significant enhancements to Info’s self-service

Salesforce, the cloud computing innovator has unveiled Wave, an Analytics Cloud – the sixth cloud in the Salesforce Customer Success Platform – that will enable companies to access – explore and visualise – their data on Salesforce. “Wave is the first cloud analytics platform designed for every business user,” claims

Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in data discovery, today announced that NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS) is using its QlikView platform to provide a data analysis solution for health and wellbeing organisations across the North of England. With the solution, based on QlikView, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)

ServiceSource, a recurring revenue management outfit, has released the ServiceSource Customer Success App on the Salesforce1 Platform. “Today’s customer success teams need purpose-built tools that complement their existing CRM systems so they can deliver a high-value customer experience at every touch point after the initial sale,” explains Jim Dunham, President